Sentence examples for are called off from inspiring English sources

"The ice ages are called off, if you like, by human interference," he said.

There are 32 holidays when the rules are called off, 42 days in all — from Purim to Diwali, from Ash Wednesday to Id al-Fitr.

"In hindsight, when you look back at what danger people were in, there should be a moment when police are called off the street and brought into a high-water zone," said Mr. Richter, the union president.

Their coordinates are radioed in to headquarters at Luke Air Force Base, and if any animals are observed within a kilometer of a target, exercises are called off or shifted to another range.

It is usually easier not to go through with them than to bring them to fruition and, at the time they are called off, it is often a relief, as it was to many in Liverpool, if not the local residents, in October.

On a night when the three eager detectives are about to set out to make a dangerous high-profile arrest of a murderous drug dealer, they are called off by the captain, saying he is acting at the district attorney's request.

It was during her last term that Mrs. Fuller Brown sponsored the law banning from state roads what are called off-premises billboards — those not on the site of the business being advertised.

Search has been called off.

It should be called off".

That plan has since been called off.

The search was called off next morning.